Making sense of roblox setmetatable for your scripts

I remember the first time I saw a roblox setmetatable call in a script—I genuinely thought I had accidentally opened a file written in a different language. It looks intimidating, right? You've got these weird double underscores, tables inside of tables, and this cryptic word "metatable" that sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie. But once you get past that initial "what on earth is this" phase, you realize it's probably the most powerful tool in your Luau toolbox. ...

February 3, 2026 · 7 min · Keutenedjian Gutierrez